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March 31 2009 -- After an expensive eight-year legal battle which was taken all the way to the Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein this week, 93 white ex-employees of the SABC - amongst them famous news anchors such as Johan Pretorius, Cliff Saunders and Andre Liebenberg -- have seen a confirmation of their rights to have the SABC pay 60% of their medical benefits, as had been agreed upon in their original early retirement pay packets.

R250-million

The state-owned SA broadcasting corporation will have to now pay an estimated R250-million for all the legal costs -- as ordered by the court, including the retroactive payments of 60% of the pensioners’ medical aid fees, with 15,5% interest costs added…

The 94 ex SABC employees had been given the undertaking that the state-broadcaster would continue to pay 60% of their medical-aid scheme fees when they were coerced into signing 'voluntary' early retirement pay packets to get the white workers out of the SABC.

Coop-Group

These SABC pensioners, known as the "Coop-Group" after their informal leader Fred Coop ex-personnel chief of the SABC, had agreed to retire under this agreement that 60% of their medical-aid fees would be paid by the SABC.

However, in 2001, the SABC had unilaterally ended these contributions, i.e. they had broken their legal undertaking. This caused an eight-year-long legal battle, which resulted in High Court Judge P Blieden ordering the SABC to continue paying the medical-aid fees retroactively -- and he’d made it a punitive court order.

Moreover, the broadcaster was also told to refund all the money the pensioners had to pay from their own pockets ever since the benefits were suspended, as well as the interest at 15.5% per year.

Judge Blieden said in his ruling that as a "state organ" the SABC ‘ws expected to act ethically, to practise good human-resources management, to be transparent with information and to act impartially, fairly, equally and without prejudice in its service provision.

"Unfortunately the facts of this case prove that none of the conditions were met by the SABC in its relationship with the pensioners.

"The mere thought that costs are curbed by aiming at the rights of pensioners with regards to medical-aid funding is not only distasteful but unacceptable and dishonest," he said in his ruling in 2004.

Judge Blieden also rejected an argument from the SABC that the pensioners conspired before their retirement to ensure that "white managers in the SABC" resigned with benefits to which they were not entitled, as "totally scandalous and libellous".

Piet Bester from the firm Blake Bester Inc, which acted on behalf of the pensioners, described the verdict on Wednesday as a "strong signal to all employers in the country that they cannot unilaterally and without negotiation" tamper with employee and pensioner benefits.

Moreover, the SABC's application against this decision was denied by the Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein this week. They will now have to cough up, with 15,5% interest…

Meanwhile a second group of 1,000 pensioned-off former SABC workers are also ready to sue the national broadcaster's decision to phase out their medical-aid benefit payments over the next five years. Interpreted from report by senior editor Philip de Bruin of Beeld newspaper.

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Mar 29 2009 Herman Scholtz of Beeld newspaper reports that judge Carl Rabie of the Pretoria High Court has issued an urgent order that the South African government's land-affairs commissioner and the Minister of Finance must immediately pay Limpopo's farmers whose land was confiscated, what they are owed – plus interest.

Despite the failure of this so-called ‘land-reform programme’ the ANC-regime still carries on relentlessly – and causing a massive food-shortage problem in South Africa. See

For instance, the Sunday Times discovered during a recent tour around the country’s ‘redistributed’ former commercial farms, that twenty crop- and dairy farms in the Eastern /cape, bought for R11,5-million, had been turned into a squatter camp near Kokstad.

Also, that 10,000 ‘previously disadvantaged’ people who had been given 8,000 hectares of prime fruit- and macadamia farms in Limpopo now are crippled by a whopping R5-million debt…

… That a former multimillion-rand tea estate in Magoebaskloof in Limpopo has become an overgrown forest; and that more than five tons of a macadamia nut crop on a ‘redistributed’ Limpopo farm had become so poorly managed (macadamia nuts need a lot of hands-on maintenance) that the crop was dumped in the Levubu river.. The list goes on and on. see

This week, the Afrikaner commercial farmers who owned some of the best developed, high-production Limpopo fruit-and vegetable farms in the country, with names such as Turflaagte, De Kuil, Middelkopje and Palmietgat in the Warmbaths and Waterberg district, were only given a few months to vacate their beloved family homesteads to make way for the Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association members. They hadlate last year, suddenly demanded all these very high-production, fertile farms in a formal land-claim.

This land had been farmed by Boer-farmers since the days of the independent Transvaal Boer Republic before 1902. (ZAR). The farmers said the community ‘s forebears had moved into the region long after the Boer farmers had, providing extensive proof such as old Boer-Voortrekker gravesites – but all their documentation and proof fell on deaf ears.

The only thing they were still allowed to ‘negotiate,’ was the price: and even there, they were being cheated: they had been promised very specific amounts of compensation for their land in May 2007. However the agreed-to payments have not even been budgeted for in the government’s 2009 budget… This week these farmers lodged a combined law-suit, asking the Pretoria High Court for an urgent court order to force the government to pay them as had been formally agreed. The court complied, ordering the goverment to pay the farmers at once, and with interest.

The community which was given the confiscated farms for free, the "Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association", was handed management of these fertile farms on February 20 2009 in one of the speediest legal land-thefts yet on record in South Africa.

Yet the government hadn't even bothered to budget in the National budget to pay these farmers the agreed-to prices for their lost land -- despite the fact that the farmers had agreed to even lower prices if only they'd get paid…

According to documents before the court, the and-claims commissioner Miyelani Nkatingi had the farmers sign their 'sales-agreements' for their valuable, beloved and very fertile family farms in October 2008. However it was also noted that these sales contracts were never endorsed by the highest-level government officials, the court heard.

A week later, the farmers discovered why this ploy was used: they were forced to 'renegotiate the sales contracts again’ -- when the government forced down the land price by 50% - to a total of $4-million for all these farms in the Warmbaths and Waterberg regions, which are some of the highest fresh-fruit and produce-producing farms in South Africa. The annual potential income of these farms was $12-m a year when they were ‘sold’ to the State.

According to the second sales agreement – which was signed by the land-claims commissioner, sixty percent of the total sales sum would be paid immediately and the rest within ten days of the land-transfer to the government. They are still sitting on their hands – not a cent has been paid, the court heard.

Yet while all the farms were alread formally registered to the Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association on 20 February this year, the Afrikaner farmers still haven't received the agreed-to sums.

The court heard that 'none of the written and verbal agreements by the government have been honoured.'

Land-claims chief commissioner Andrew Mphela told the farmers on 9 March 2009 that he 'was so sorry, but that the money just wasn't there.'

He then told the farmers to 'wait until the end of March, but couldn't guarantee even then that they would get the payments...' according to documents before the court.

Rabe agreed with the farmers that the matter was urgent for them and their families, because they had all undertaken new commitments based on the promises made by the ANC-government -- amongst others they had to buy new homes when they forced to move so suddenly from their family farms.

The State did not oppose the application and yet another formal undertaking was given in the documents to the court that 'they would pay what was owed, with interest...'

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A little-known discovery of new oil fields in the Ugandan rift-valley region of Africa has brought clean water, health clinics, paved roads and schools to thousands of poor villagers in the Hoima district.

And Ugandan universities are rushing to train more mining engineers...

Life is being transformed in one of the poorest regions of Africa in Uganda's Hoima district, right next to Lake Albert, ever since the oil-bearing sands deep below were first discovered in in 2006 by Scotland-based Tullow Oil company.

The find is not being all that widely published in the Western world, so outside Uganda, it's relatively unknown that they are already pumping about 27,000 barrels of oil a day, and plan to go to fulltime production by 2011.

The rush now is on to complete the planned 350-km pipeline from Kenya's Mombasa harbour to Kampala and extend it to Lake Albert. And Mombasa is also expanding its oil-export terminal.see

Lives are transformed:

Picture: St Theresa's school for Ugandan girls was moved with US funds to a safer location away from the areas terrorised by attackers from the Lord's Resistance Army rebel groups. Now Ugandan girls can go to school in safe surroundings

The very first people to benefit from this new wealth derived from black gold, are the Boima region's villagers -- who have struggled all their lives just to survive each day. They say their lives are now being transformed practically overnight by the oil find, with Tullow OIl company spending a lot of money on improving their infrastructure, with new schools, fresh-water boreholes, new health clinics, lots of new nurses -- and even brand-new schools and uniforms.

Fisherman Charles Ojega says boreholes are a new experience for villagers in the Kyangwari sub-county, which had never had a clean water source before in their lives. After fishing all day on Lake Albert, he can now prepare his meal from fresh water from a borehole just five metres from his grass-thatched hut in Songa village in the Hoima district. “Our lives have been transformed. I can now spend more time fishing without worrying about where to find clean water. It is a new world for us,” Ojega says.

Songa, with a population of 10,000 people, is a fishing community in Buhuka parish right next to Lake Albert."This is the first ever borehole in our area - ever. It was drilled in November last year,” Ojega says. They used to just fetch water from the lake. And until last year, there were no paved roads in Buhuka - with vehicles a rare sight.

"We were poor. None of us could afford a car,” says William Kato, the LCI chairman for Songa. Indeed: until last year, none of the families in the parish lived on more than 1,000 Ugandan shillings ($0.50) a day, says Kato. llliteracy was high due to lack of schools. The only primary school in Buhuka had one teacher and stopped at Primary Four.

Today, this misery has become history for Kyangwari residents, thanks to the ongoing oil exploration in the region, the local New Vision newspaper writes.

There are two oil companies exploring oil resources in this south-western part of Uganda — Heritage and Tullow Oil companies -- and both are creating new infrastructure and development projects in the area.

AFRICOM presence:

The US military is also wading in, with AFRICOM engaged in a massive livestock innoculation programme since 2008, building new schools and also helping the Ugandan military in its ongoing battle with a particularly vicious group of insurgent-rebels called the Lord's Resistance Army.

Presently, they are also engaged in trying to retrieve human remains and the wreckage from the crashed Russian cargo plane from the bottom of Lake Victoria. see

The huge Russian Soviet-era Ilyushin-76 cargo plane was taking supplies to the African peacekeepers in Somalia when it burst into flames within minutes of takeoff from Uganda's Entebbe airport and landed in 25 metres of water, embedded beneath 10m of mud. see and also see

A US military transport plane landed at Entebbe airport this week, dispatched from Fleet Logistics Support in New Orleans, LA to help find human remains and the wreckage of a crashed US-leased cargo plane at the bottom of Lake Victoria near Entebbe, Uganda.

Tullow is a leading independent oil & gas, exploration and production group, quoted on the London and Irish Stock Exchanges (TLW) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Group has interests in over 85 exploration and production licences across 22 countries and focuses on four core areas: Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America. They confirm that they are investing heavily in upgrading the infrastructure of the new Ugandan oil-fields.

In an area where deadly-ill patients had to be carried on sacks to the nearest clinic 20km away, there are now new clinics and medical centres in every parish. “Today, women in Kyehoro can give birth from the Tullow maternity centre at no cost,” George Tinkamanyire, the district chairman.And already he can see the difference: health conditions in the district have improved.

Habib Kagumi, chairman of Tamoil Ltd., the company contracted to carry out extension work on Kenya's Mombasa-harbour’s 351-kilometer Eldoret oil pipeline, says that once their pipeline has been extended to Kampala in Uganda, there are plans to extend it further to the Albertine Rift -- so it can be used to transport oil for export when Uganda reaches full-scale production from 2011. The work starts in April 2009 and last for 15 months.

Kagimu said the pipeline would be extended from Kampala to landlocked Rwanda and Burundi. Since 2006, Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil have been carrying out extensive exploration activities on the Ugandan side of the Albertine Rift. Your image

Tullow Oil Company officials say that the Albertine rift "has enough reserves to justify an export-oriented project." They also are in talks with the (still rather nominal) Congolese government to also obtain more exploration rights on the Congolese side of Lake Albert.It already has an 100% operated interest in Block 2 in the Lake Albert Rift Basin and is the largest acreage holder in that area.

The company says that four oil discoveries were made in the Kaiso-Tonya region of the block during 2006 alone - proving up a 'working hydrocarbon system in the basin with good quality oil from highly productive reservoirs'. They said they had located 'substantial upside potential' in the block in the Kaiso-Tonya area, the Butiaba area to the north and beneath Lake Albert, where the larger prospects are located.

Because of easy access to the lake shore, they pinpoint this region as the likely hub any future development as a logical oil export route to the coast (i.e. via Kenya/Mombasa harbour). In 2007, Tullow launched a programme of 2D and 3D seismic scanning and drilling across the basin to establish the extent of the oil reserves.

The African Rift Valley is one the geologic wonders of the world, a place where the earth’s tectonic forces are creating new plates by splitting apart old ones. It's a fracture in the earth’s surface that widens over time and geologists say eventually, the plates wlll split apart, with the Ethiopia-Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania plate being given a new name: the Nubian Plate -- which makes up most of Africa.The smaller section splitting away from Africa is the Somalian Plate - steadily moving away from each other, and also from the Arabian plate to the north.

The point where these three plates meet in the Afar region of Ethiopia forms what is called a triple-junction. This rifting also extends into Kenya, Tanzania and the Great Lakes region of Africa – and that’s where the newly-discovered oil reserves are located.

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Skin-cancer sufferer Helene van Zyl feels lucky: she was merely beaten to a pulp -- but escaped gang-rape by four gangsters

March 27 2009 – By Beeld newspaper. Skin-cancer sufferer Helene van Zyl, 54, was pistol-whipped six times through the face after she told one of her four armed attackers that he would 'get her cancer' if he tried to raped her.

The attackers became even angrier with her when they found just a small sum of cash in her wallet and snarled: "you lie, you white bitch, we know you are rich...'

Mrs van Zyl and her husband Willie, 57, of Mooikloof in Pretoria, both were also tied up and beaten badly. However they feel lucky that they were allowed to live -- and that she wasn't gang-raped.

Their ordeal started after the men kicked a massive hole into the brick wall around the high-security estate and crashed their way into the couple's double story home at around 2.45am. "If you make a mess, we will shoot you,' were the first words the sleeping Van Zyl couple heard as the men, all armed with parabellum handguns, stormed into their bedroom.

After the beatings, their bed was coated in blood, she said. They stole the couple's four handguns - which by law have to remain locked in the government-registered safe – as well as their cellphones and her jewellery.

Police sergeant Marinda Stoltz said nobody has been arrested, of course. Mr Van Zyl also was irate with the developer of the estate for building such a 'pathetic single-brick-thick wall' , which was clearly inadequate, as it was easy to kick holes through it, as they found out. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2492910,00.html

Live slaughter of five prime Fresian cows shocks farmer

Farmer Herman Boersma of the farm Welverdiend in Meyerton was heartbroken when he found five of his beloved, very valuable Fresian dairy cows slaughtered in the veld.

He believes the animals must have suffered terribly: From all the signs it looks as if some were slaughtered while still alive, he said.

Each of these registered Fresian animals has a resale value of between $5,000 to $7,000.

The livestock thieves only cut off their shoulder blades and thighs – and clearly were skilled in butchery, he noted.

The farmer only realised that the cows were missing when they didn't show up in their 'first milking team'. He always divides them up into teams of twelve, and the girls show up themselves to be milked when it’s their turn, he said.

They started searching and found the dead animals in a neighbouring farmer's field.

Sheep were also slaughtered on a nearby farm at Bloemendal, and nine cows were also slaughtered in exactly the same manner on another neighbour's farm last month, he said. Police constable Lephoto is investigating. He can be contacted at Meyerton police, 016 362 0126. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2492764,00.html

Cape Town the second-most violent city in the world

March 27 2009 -The ANC government had mastered delivering lower crime statistics, but remained amateur when it came to protecting the country's people, the opposition party COPE’s Western Cape premier candidate in the April 22 election, Prof Alan Boesak said on Sunday.

"Crime has installed itself into the soul of [our] country... it has been coming at us with such regularity that all of us, on occasion, become immune to bad news," Boesak said.

Boesak said reported robberies with aggravating circumstances may have declined by 7.4 percent, but by 2004 there had already been an increase of almost 58,000 reported cases since the 1994 elections.

And while common assault declined by 6.6 percent last year, statistics had rocketed since 1994, with more than 61,000 incidents annually.

Indecent assaults had also more than doubled in the decade between 1994 and 2004, so a 2.1 percent decline in 2008 "was pretty meaningless when measured this way".

"Last year, Cape Town was awarded the dubious honour of ranking second in the United States’ foreign policy ranking of the top five murder capitals of the world," said Boesak.

"The only city more violent than Cape Town is Caracas in Venezuela. It is a disgrace."

6 people a day murdered in Cape Town alone…

He said Cape Town reported a murder rate of 62 people per 100,000. With approximately 3.5 million people, that equates to almost six people violently dying in Cape Town daily.

More than 1,000 new citizenship applications lodged at Dutch embassy in South Africa thus far this year; double from last year’s …

March 28 2009 – Voorburg, The Hague. Afrikaners with Dutch forebears are rushing to apply for Dutch passports, reports the daily Algemeen Dagblad today. More than a thousand applications for Dutch citizenship are waiting for approval at the Dutch embassy in South Africa – and last year they had granted some 500 work-permits for Afrikaners with Dutch roots.

Journalist Caspar Nabel interviewed one couple, Hendrik and Lynette de Vries, who now live with their little baby in the The Hague suburb of Voorburg.

The De Vries couple said they were mainly driven from South Africa because of the crime: “Hendrik’s dad was murdered, and I feared for my life,’ she said.

Thanks to Hendrik’s forefather, who left for South Africa from The Hague during the 18th century, the couple now have been granted a Dutch passport. They don’t have to choose which nationality they prefer as yet: “We have permission to keep our South African nationality and to adopt the Dutch nationality,’ said Lynette. She was in The Netherlands before – as an au pair fifteen years ago. She now has a job as design manager and her husband is a systems manager. And they don’t ever want to go back to South Africa, both said.

“We went through a lot of trouble to get used to the weather and the cultural differences, but we live ‘baie lekker in Holland,’ both said.

An embassy spokesman in Pretoria told the journalist that while the economic crisis in South Africa ‘is playing an important role,’ the flood of citizenship-applications from Afrikaners is mainly due to recent changes in the Dutch laws, which makes emigration for people for Dutch forebears – which applies to the majority of Afrikaners – much more attractive.

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Picture: Members of the Boervolk Freedom Foundation protested against the ethnocide targetting their nation under ANC-rule by spilling symbolic blood at the statue of the last Boer-Republican president Paul Kruger in the centre of Pretoria. The ANC-city council has unilaterally renamed the city, built and founded by Boer forebears, to “Tswane’ and are now removing all the Boer-era memorials from the city -- in an ongoing ethnic-cleansing campaign in which the ANC-ruled regime is removing all historic traces of Boers and Afrikaners from the South African landscape, writing their history out of the history books and eracing all the Afrikaner names from the map of South Africa. They haven’t thought up any new words for Boer names such as“Aardvark, Wildebees, Springbok or Wag-n-Bietjie-Bos “– but are working on it…

24/03/2009 Bloemfontein - Police are still investigating a charge of attempted murder against parttime Odendaalsrus farmer/miner Neels van Biljon, after an injured farmworker claimed he was tortured by being dragged behind a farm vehicle by the farmer.

Worker Andries Xaba, 57, now admits he lied about the dragging. He was however admitted to hospital in Welkom with serious injuries on Monday and obviously, some body-damaging incident has occurred which thus far has not yet been fully explained.

Neels van Biljon, a part-time farmer who works at the Beatrix gold mine, appeared briefly in the Odendaalsrus Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. He was not asked to plead to anything. He had handed himself over to police at the Odendaalsrus police station, accompanied by his lawyer.

He was remanded for one night in police custody until his formal bail application on Wednesday.

Police Captain Stephen Thakeng said on Tuesday that Xaba “sustained multiple body and head injuries in an incident" and was treated in the intensive care unit at Bongani Hospital.

False statement:

“Xaba had initially told the police that 'he was tied up with a rope and dragged behind the farmer's bakkie for not slaughtering two sheep.

"Mr Xaba has since changed his statement regarding the dragging behind the bakkie. It was false," Thakeng said.

Nov 24 2008 – 2009 RAWSONVILLE, WESTERN CAPE. Afrikaner farmer Hennie du Preez of the farm Excelsior was arrested with six employees on October 20. The case, Nr RV699/08, was remanded to 5 December in the Rawsonville law court, writes Rapport journalist Julian Jansen, who also took the picture of worker Manie Thomas, 23 on the left. The worker lodged formal charges of assault, pointing a firearm and kidnapping against Du Preez, Rapport newspaper wrote. The alleged beating occurred on October 6. It's not known why it took the farm worker two weeks before lodging the complaint. The truth will all hopefully emerge during the trial. "Someone is behind these stories" - read: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2008/11/white-farmers-must-be-dealt-with-warn.html

April 2006 -- There's indeed ample evidence that such arrests of white farmers are politically-motivated and orchestrated with false testimony. One such plot to demonise and criminalise white South African farmers was indeed uncovered in April 2006 in Rawsonville, after four white farmers were arrested in a blaze of international media attention, accused of gang-raping a female farm worker and beating a youth into a coma. read: Rape charges against four white Rawsonville farmers were fraudulent

These charges all came from one source: farm worker Annelise Davids - and she confessed shortly thereafter that she had lied 'because she'd been drunk;'. Her friend Beverley van Rooyen was then forced - with torture by a cattle prong -- to write a statement claiming she had seen the rapes of her friend. This torture was carried out by a Ceres police inspector, Matthew Ntshanga. He has since been charged with interfering with the judicial process. He still keeps his job. Davids also admitted that she had lied to the police about these same four farmers having beaten a local youth, Anthony Ntonzeni, leaving him in a coma. The police directorate investigation determined independently that this youngster had been left permanently brain-damaged after falling off a vehicle and that the farmers had not been anywhere near the scene at the time.

The two female farm workers were never charged at all -- and have never apologised to the four white farming families, either. A huge amount of hate-speech was generated in South Africa and abroad against these four accused white farmers at the time - and in fact land-rights campaigners still cite this case to this day at their public meetings and protests as 'an example of the cruelty which racist white farmers show towards their workers'...when none of these events had ever happened...

"Four white farm families went through hell...got death threats:

Meanwhile the four white farm families have been through hell, they said. "Nobody involved in this case has ever apologised to the families. The least which Davids could have done, was to apologise on a public platform about the harm which was done to our families,' one of the farmers told Rapport.

Picture: An investigation was launched by the Women on Farms Project, said its deputy-director Colette Solomons. This organisation -- funded by the Ford Foundation, Sida, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Open Society Foundation -- held a dramatic protest march on Saturday, August 9 2008 in Rawsonville, protesting 'against the lack of access to land for women, and stating that they 'are claiming back the land that was stolen from our mothers and fathers." They had gathered at the Rawsonville police station and marched to the nearby Merwiede Farm. They claimed: "On the six farms owned by the van der Merwes assaults on farm workers are common-place. One woman cooperative member has been assaulted twice by a foreman and no action was taken..." http://lists.mindspring.co.za/pipermail/pgmwc/2008-August/000020.html

Nov 22 2008 VRYBURG, NW - Beeld journalist Linda de Beer and Rapport newspaper's Maryna van Wyk reported from Vryburg that the Afrikaner smallholder/motor mechanic Nic van Rensburg, left on picture by Rapport, was arrested after a local worker, Piet Mopelwa, had allegedly died of 'alcohol poisoning' in January this year. Van Rensburg's legal counsel Adv. Kammie Strydom told journalists outside the courtroom Friday that Mopelwa had died of pneumonia instead.

"It could not have been alcohol-poisoning: the alcohol had already been secreted from his body by the time he'd died,' said Strydom. Forensic tests are still being awaited as to the exact way in which Mopelwa may have died.

Accusations are rife that Van Rensburg's worker had allegedly been ‘tortured by electric shocks and forced to drink two bottles of brandy’. Van Rensburg was released on R2,000 and his case was remanded to 12 December by the Ganyesa/Vryburg magistrate's court. It’s not known what has happened to this case since that time. Police captain Charlize van der Linden confirmed that charges were lodged against the farmer/businessman. Apparently Mopelwa was one of the two state-witnesses in another murder charge against Van Rensburg - which trial continues in January 2008. In this case he's charged with murdering a man from Amalia in 2004, Samual Gaoshubele, who allegedly went missing after going to Rensburg's homestead to complain about a car he'd bought from him. Gaoshubele's sister Dinkwe Mofokeng was quoted by Rapport as saying that her brother had been 'afraid shortly before his death and was receiving threatening anonymous phone calls. from a man' Two black workers, including Mopelwa had testified in the Gaoshubele case that the man had been 'tied to a tree.' However Gaoshubele's wallet and remains of a human skeleton later identified forensically as his, were later found alongside a road. The local community has meanwhile taken the law into their own hands by attacking Van Rensburg's property. On this picture he is seen talking about this attack. Picture by RAPPORT newspaper. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2430727,00.htmlhttp://www.news24.com/Rapport/Suid-Afrika/0,,752-2460_2431009,00.html

Nov 11 2008 - Afrikaner advocate Marius Bouwer, testifying in Pretoria High Court: "I prayed that the hardened criminals in that cell did not know I was a cop'... The former 47-year-old operational commander of the SA Police's anti-corruption unit is suing the SA regime for his false arrest in connection with the death of an unknown black man, found dead on his farm Soetdorings near Bultfontein, Pretoria in January 2002.Bouwer quit the police service with a medical discharge in December 2003. The dead man's name has never been published, and nothing seems to be known about him.Advocate Bouwer demands damages of R649,000 in his lawsuit against the Minister of security and safety and the Commissioner of police for the false arrest. He was arrested in 2003 after the black man's body was found -- an event, Adv. Bouwer testified, which had also 'set off a vicious witch-hunt against specific white members of the SA Police Service' by the Pretoria-metropolitan police's Mpho Mmutle. Bouwer said although he was accused of the mystery man's death, he knew nothing whatsoever about the death of this black man who, the metro-cops claimed, had been shot, dragged behind a motorbike and then had a liquid poured down his throat “to make him decompose faster”... "I received a call which confirmed that a witch-hunt had been initiated against specific white police officers by the ( highly controversial) current assistant-commissioner of the Pretoria metropolitan police Mpho Mmutle. Mmmutle, the former chief of the VIP-protection unit under ex-pres. Nelson Mandela, now heads the community safety portfolio for the Pretoria municipal council... and which fact also may explain the following events: 'Afrikaner farmers, smallholders around Pretoria facing genocide, demand local police chief's removal...' Bouwer testified: '"I was told that I would be the next person to be arrested. In December 2002, a huge police task-force descended on his farm during which the doors were broken open and damaged -- and after this event, the tension became unbearable for him at work, he said. "One waited every day that those people (the task-team investigating police officers) will walk in your home and arrest you quite illegally, that's their modus operandus,' he said. During Christmas 2002, Adv Bouwer had a breakdown, and spent five days in the Vista psychiatric clinic. Bouwer told the court he had to be admitted to the psychiatric institution over the Christmas period in 2002 as a result of the stress of waiting to be arrested on some or other charge. And after his arrest and detention, he developed nightmares and panic attacks. He was unable to concentrate, his memory was affected and his family life suffered because he withdrew from everyone. He said the humiliation was so extreme that it affected his self image. He felt as if he was worth nothing and eventually developed a bleeding ulcer because there was no finality in the charges against him.

“It leaves a bitter taste in your mouth if the employer to whom you had given 20 years of loyal service, made sacrifices for and walked the extra mile simply sits back and does nothing when you’re being treated unlawfully and maliciously,” he said.

On 20 January 2003, he was ordered by Dir.Vincent Ntengu, then the area's chief of police detectives in the Pretoria region, that he needed to give Bouwer a 'warning declaration about a murder charge pending against him'. Seven days later, Bouwer was arrested. He was not informed why he was arrested: he only heard much later that the investigating police were accusing him of the unknown man's murder. He was given no access to any legal representative, but instead the Afrikaner policeman was held at three different police stations - in one he was thrown into a cell with 11 hardened criminals, 'murderers, armed robbers and burglars', he testified. Four days after his unlawful arrest, a magistrate in the Pretoria North regional court released him on his own recognisance and two months later the 'charges' were dropped altogether due to a total lack of proof. "At times I cried like a little boy. There's simply not a greater humiliation than to be locked up innocently, and know that you were locked up for no reason at all,' he said.Bouwer was so shaken and traumatised by these events, that he was medically boarded from the police at the end of 2003. The case continues.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2424758,00.html

In an unrelated case, Coligny police have also announced the arrests of three Shangaan-speaking suspects, charged with the assassination-style farm-murder of Sias Stander on his Coligny farm last week. The question still remains whether farm wife Hannetjie Stander, 67, will now be arrested for 'murder' and 'attempted murder,' after she'd managed to shoot dead one attacker, Ernest Vilakazi of Mozambique and injuring another Shangaan-speaking man seriously after she had already been stabbed eleven times...

The three arrested Shangaan-speaking men, Samuel Katgetla, 26; Sergio Masibela, 26, of Mozambique and Patrick Malebo, 28, LEFT, this week appeared in the Coligny magistrate's court as suspects in the execution-style murder of local farmer Sias Stander last week. Their trial starts Nov 17 and they remain in custody. Police identified the killed farm-attacker as Mozambiquan migrant Ernest Vilakazi, 34. It's not yet known whether the badly traumatised elderly farm-wife will now be charged with murder and attempted murder for killing Vilakazi and injuring his comrade. The current record shows that such arrests of Afrikaner farm-attack victims often follow such self-defence deaths. Mr Stander was one of three farmers murdered thus far this month in very violent farm attacks in the North West province. Also murdered were farmers Brink Botha of Mamogaleskraal, 2 Nov; and Flip Minnie of Rooikoppies farm near Brits 6 Nov. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2424154,00.html

Murder charges dropped against farmer Jaco Swart, Delareyville

The Delareyville magistrate's court dropped the murder-charge against local farmer Jaco Swart, 26, arrested in May this year after shooting dead farm-attacker Michael Thipe and injuring one of of Thipe's comrades while they were attacking his parental homestead. The court refused to try the case: it was scrapped off the roll because Swart 'had acted in self-defence', said the magistrate. Afriforum community-security spokesman Nantes Kelder said this latest dismissal of the young farmer's case 'proves that Swart was arrested illegally."The arrest was motivated purely by politics," he said. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2424128,00.html

Nov 10 2008 - OUDTSHOORN, Karoo. The Circuit Court in Oudtshoorn this week also viewed a gruesome video of 13-year-old farmworker's child Elizabeth Martiens‘s decomposing body where it was found in an empty water tank on one of the three sheep farms owned by accused farmer Piet Botes. Elizabeth was last seen alive when Botes drove off with her from his Karoo sheep farm Weltevrede in April last year, according to this report. He has pleaded not guilty, claiming that he had dropped Elizabeth off next to her mother‘s house in Merweville, but that the girl never arrived there. Her remains were found on Weltevrede farm three months later, a day after police arrested Botes on charges of 'child abandonment'.

Case postponed to March 9 2008 - he stays in jail:

This case is however complicated by the fact that Botes' own brother has testified against him. Even though Botes is the owner of three local sheep-farms, an income-earner with a fix-abode and no previous criminal record, Botes was ordered to remain in Oudtshoorn prison for the next five months: his case was postponed to March 9 2009. It's not known what has happened to this case by March 24 2009.The video screened in the courtroom in November 2008 showed her lifeless body lying under two zinc sheets and some of her personal items, which had been burnt.

Botes, 49, is accused of abducting and murdering the girl. He has since then also been charged with abducting and indecently assaulting two teenage sisters in 2006 after finding them gathering wood on another of his three farms. Their names were not published in this report, nor is it known whether he pleaded guilty to these last two charges.

Botes family distraught, mother grief-stricken: His brother, Frans, testified earlier that Piet had confessed to him that he ' had something to do with Elizabeth‘s death." The defence attorney, unnamed in this report, did not cross-examine the brother.

Judge Vincent Saldanha and his assessors did cross-examine the brother Frans about their upbringing: Frans Botes told the judge that 'they had received a good upbringing, and that moreover their father, Frans Botes snr, had 'not been particularly strict "-- although they often got hidings, he added. Asked why he decided to testify against his brother, Frans said it was difficult, and that the charges against Piet were putting the family “through a very difficult time”.

However, he had been taught not to lie, he testified: noting that their mother, 72, was taking the situation badly and that the rest of the family was sad and tense. The case was postponed to March 9 2009. Botes will remain in custody at the Oudtshoorn prison. We will continue to monitor this case, which may or may not be related to the fact that there are six land-restitution claims pending in the Oudtshoorn region. http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n08_10112008.htm

Land-claims in Oudtshoorn region:

SIX land-restitution claims were submitted all on the same day, December 24, 2004, to the Land Restitution office, for Oudtshoorn land-parcels Erven 2619, 2260, 2461, 2341, 2255 and 2277, and against the farm Die Rust. Nothing further is presently known about these land claims; who lodged them, where these (often giant) parcels are located in this arid region -- nor whether Botes' three sheep farms were included in these claims. We are still investigating whether a 'Rawsonville" situation has arisen here or not.http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/landclaims/restitutionoflandrightsact_22of1994/2004.htm

Pietermaritzburg Oct 19 2008 - The convictions and sentences of two senior 121 Battallion officers - arrested in front of their men amidst a blaze of publicity in 2004, and who had lost their jobs after their convictions -- were set aside by Appeals Court judges Nic van der Reyde and Piet Koen. It's not yet clear whether these Afrikaner officers would now get back their jobs -- with back-pay, as the law requires.

Ex-commander of 121 Battallion near Mtubatuba, lt-col Tobie van Eeden (45, left), and its former judicial officer maj. Ferdinand Labuschagne (39) were cleared of all charges stemming from false accusations which had been made by a black driver, rifleman M Sithole, that the Afrikaner officers had conspired to kill a black 21 Battallion officer (who has since died of AIDS).

Originally, four Afrikaner officers were arrested in the most distressing circumstances possible for senior military men: in front of the entire 121 Battallion near St. Lucia in 2004. Two were cleared, but LtCol Louis van Eeden, officer commanding of 121 Battalion and its judicial officer Maj Ferdinand Labuschagne were convicted for 'defeating the ends of justice' by regional magistrate L Naidoo in the Eskhawini court near Richard's Bay in November 2004. Each was fined R4 000, or two years jail, plus five years jail suspended. And of course, they also lost their jobs.

"Magistrate Naido had closed his mind...'

Judge Van der Reyden said in his Appeals Court summary setting aside their convictions that magistrate Naidoo had "closed his mind to the probability that a black driver, rifleman M Sithole, could ever have falsely implicated the two white officers, i.e. Bronkhorst and Goosen, accusing them of conspiring to murder the second in command, Maj M Manekwane.' The main witness in the conspiracy case against Bronkhorst and Goosen had been Rifleman M Sithole yet, the Appeal Court noted, this sole witness had "submitted three conflicting statements" which should have been examined more closely by magistrate Naidoo...

Black driver was 'forced to falsely implicate the Afrikaner officers' -- he testified:

The state had accused Van Eeden and Labuschagne of 'influencing Sithole to retract a first formal statement to the police in which he 'd alleged that the two other Afrikaner officers, Bronkhorst and Goosen, had ' plotted to murder Manekwane."

Legal officer Labuschagne had taken Sithole to a Mtubatuba SAPS officer after this first statement, where Sithole had retracted it -- claiming that he had been forced to falsely implicate Bronkhorst and Goosen in the plot to kill Manekwane. When Sithole's retracting statement was handed to a prosecutor she had told the SAPS investigating officer of Sithole' second statement.

That very same evening the police had obtained a third statement from Sithole in which he retracted his second statement and said his first statement implicating Bronkhorst and Goosen had been true.

In his judgment at the time, magiistrate Naidoo had said "this case has all the characteristics of a tragic play where the prejudices, bias and so forth based on race kinmanship, partisanship and other prejudices are rife, and were indeed exposed."

However, noted Judge Van der Reyden, "one would have expected a regional magistrate to approach the case with an objective and open mind.

"However he (Naidoo) did not do so. He lost sight of the fact that Sithole's two statements revealed two possible plots - a conspiracy of white officers to get rid of Manekwane and/or a conspiracy by black officer officers to get rid of white officers.

"It is clear that this magistrate had closed his mind to the probability that Sithole had falsely implicated Bronkhorst and Goosen, that he went to Labuschagne of his own volition and disclosed to him the falsity of his third statement and that his second statement retracting his first statement reflected the true position.This oversight by the magistrate resulted in him defining the main plot solely based on the state case.'

"He also overlooked the fact that a finding that Sithole went to Labuschagne on his own volition and told him the true position - that he had falsely implicated Bronkhorst and Goosen - could only have one outcome: an acquittal on the charge of defeating the course of justice," Van der Reyden said. Judge Koen concurred. - Sapa

Three Afrikaners in Prieska had an 'unfair trial' because of racist judge Frans Kgomo - Supreme court of appeal

Bloemfontein, South Africa. - Sept. 18 2008 -- The Supreme Court of Appeal (on Thursday agreed with three Afrikaner men, Joseph le Grange, son Pieter and a friend Hendrik van der Westhuizen of Prieska, that they did not have a fair trial. The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the court proceedings against the three men were 'invalid' and that the convictions and sentences imposed on them could not stand.

The SCA also ruled that the men should be retried - but that this time, Northern Cape Judge President Frans Kgomo - left -- was not allowed to preside over the matter. Judge Nathan Ponnan said in the judgment that when 'taken cumulatively, I have no doubt that ... the learned judge-president was not fair and impartial during the trial'. The found that Kgomo ... showed a clear personal prejudice against the Afrikaner defendants.

The SCA upheld the appeal brought by Joseph le Grange, found guilty of murder by Kgomo, and his son Pieter and Van der Westhuizen, who were convicted of being accessories after the fact to murder. Kgomo had sentenced Le Grange senior to 24 years in prison, while the other two were sent to prison for six and five years respectively.

The matter relates to the death of a 13-year-old Prieska boy in March 2004. He had been stabbed with a sword hidden inside a walking stick.The boy, who died in hospital, was allegedly confronted by the Afrikaner men for stealing. The SCA 's appeal hearing - heard by a full bench -- did not consider the merits of the murder itself, but focused solely on certain alleged irregularities in the course of the trial.

It held that the three Afrikaner men did not have a fair trial and that the proceedings before Judge Pres. Frans Kgomo were invalid.

The SCA set aside the convictions and sentences and remitted the matter to the Kimberley High Court, ordering that proceedings in respect of the same offence may again be instituted. They found that during the trial an application for Kgomo's recusal had been launched by these defendants - and had been refused. "He (Kgomo) sought, it would seem, from time to time to expedite the hearing of the matter by virtually taking over the prosecution from counsel for the State," the judgement read. However, the SCA found that in doing that it appeared that judge president Kgomo had 'at times overlooked the judge's usual role in a trial and had associated himself too closely with the conduct of the case. ' http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2395637,00.html

Senior Limpopo detective Johan Fourie fights to get job back - 5 years after he was cleared of trumped-up 'theft' charges

Pietersburg - This is Senior Superintendent Johan Fourie, one of Limpopo province's most senior and experienced police detectives, who has been waging a five-year battle -- doing odd-jobs to stay alive -- trying to regain his job rights via the law courts.

Five years ago, he was unceremoniously arrested without any arrest warrant after an amount of R109,000 in cash had allegedly 'gone missing'. However, this recovered cash had been paid over by the police immediately to the security company it had been robbed from.

The following internal police investigation had found him innocent of any wrong-doing when it was found his commanding officer senior superintendent Benny Nkuna had ordered the investigating police officer to 'keep quiet about the statement from the security company that there was no missing cash'.

Yet five years later, Fourie -- totally innocent -- is still fighting to get his job and R1million in backpay restored to him. He says he is being victimised by the deliberate delaying tactics of Senior superintendent Benny Nkuna and asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate the inequal way he is being treated by police management.

One of the country's most dedicated cops is now keeping body and soul together by repairing TV-antennas and installing kitchen-cabinets. Five years ago, he was the officer in charge of the organised crime unit in Limpopo and solved several high-profile cases, including important farm murders for which he was featured on the Carte Blanche programme "A Bloody Harvest'.

He's one of the best-trained detectives in the country. Now Fourie has asked for his police-pension to be paid out so that he can pay for his legal costs for his forthcoming Labour Court hearing which started in October 2008 - because the police legal-aid fund he'd been paying his fees to all those years, also refused to help him with the court costs...

The 'fraud' case which had been lodged against him and four colleagues was scrapped off the court rolls within just days, proven to be trumped-up charges, but police management now keeps lodging appeals to keep the Afrikaner policeman suspended without pay and in limbo.

The internal police investigation has cleared him, the police personnel-board has ordered Fourie's immediate reinstatement with back pay -- but senior superintendent Benny Nkuna has lodged yet another appeal against this latest decision. Fourie says these are all delaying tactics to keep him off his job and without an income. Fourie is becoming increasingly bitter about the way he's being treated by police management. He has always been innocent, yet he's being treated like dirt. "Police management's willfull actions against me have ruined me financially. I am being victimised,' he said. He feels that the public prosecutor's office and the Human Rights Commission should investigate these human rights violations against him. http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2377292,00.html

23/07/2008 Linda de Beer, Beeld - Rustenburg - A hunting trip turned into a nightmare for a former police officer when he was kept in a crowded cell for a weekend for trumped up 'crimen injuria' charges, along with people who assaulted him and wanted to rape him.These cellmates also ejaculated into his drinking water. Due to this hell he's had indured in the police cell, and after he was threatened with another seven days just like it, he pleaded guilty on June 30 in Madikwe Magistrate's Court to a charge of crimen injuria. His lawyer is now appealing against this verdict because it was extracted under extreme duress.

Until March, Van der Mescht had been the police's appointed firearm official in Rustenburg. He works at present as a security manager for a hotel group. The 37-year-old Afrikaner was stripped naked and assaulted repeatedly in the cells by inmates. He also was stabbed in the head with a knife and another sharp object. His cellmates also tried to rape him, but he fought with all his might to prevent this. A knife was held to his genitals while the men threatened to cut them off.

After this, he had to sit on the cold cell floor for a long time before his clothes were given back to him, said Van der Mescht on Monday. Van der Mescht, a father of two, did not eat or drink anything for the whole weekend: his cellmates apparently ejaculated into the water that was offered to him. He said the police visited the cell only once every morning and once every evening.

Since his experience at the end of June, nightmares have been preventing Van der Mescht from sleeping. His lawyer, Carl Arnold, said they were waiting on the test results for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections because of the dirty knife that was used on Van der Mescht.

On June 27, Van der Mescht was part of a group who went hunting in the Madikwe Trust area. He was at their camp when two fellow hunters in a bakkie were stopped by police.They were unable to show the licence of another hunter's firearm that was in the car.

After an assurance that someone would go to show them the licence, the police left without taking further action. Arnold said Van der Mescht -- until March the Rustenburg police's former firearm-license officer -- and another man drove after the police with the other hunter's firearm licence and identity document, but they repeatedly ignored him when he tried to show the documents to them.

Van der Mescht and the driver of the bakkie he was in, then stopped at a place where a few police vehicles were standing next to the road. Some of the police officers apparently spotted him and stormed at Van der Mescht. The door of the bakkie was yanked open and he was jerked out by the arm. Van der Mescht said he told them he did not appreciate their actions.

At that, he was thrown into the back of a police van. They apparently drove around with him for more than an hour before he was taken to Madikwe police station. He said: "I was arrested for crimen injuria and intimidation."

Van der Mescht's wife was rudely chased from the police station when she wanted to see her husband on the Saturday, she told the news-media. She apparently also was threatened with arrest. On June 30, Van der Mescht was forced to plead guilty in Madikwe Magistrate's Court under extreme duress to a charge of crimen injuria, after he was threatened 'with another seven days in the cells.'

North West police's Captain Aafje Botma claimed that 'Van der Mescht threatened and swore at the police officer when they were driving next to each other' and that the former police officer 'was taken to a hospital for treatment'.She also denied that his wife had been kept from visiting him -- and said police 'had visited the cells every hour...' However, Botma was at a loss to answer a question about how a sharp object got into the prisoners' cell. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2362959,00.html

Rustenburg. – June 8 2007 - Harry Halgryn and fiancee Gwen Maritz of Rustenburg became victims twice on June 8 2007. Their ordeal started after all his valuables, documents, bank-cards and money were stolen from their locked bakkie while they were staying at a guest house. Harry had kept his (legally-registered) gun on him, so they didn't steal that...

After the guest farm manager had notified police of the robbery by telephone, a heavily-armed police force showed up -- but only the next day. They refused to identify themselves - instead roughly arresting the robbery victim, Mr Halgryn for a clarly inaccurate charge: 'having an unlicensed firearm." They had no arrest warrant. Harry said a constable Kgapola claimed to be in charge of taking him to the police station in Witbank, but after stopping there he then was rushed at breakneck speed to Middelburg, where Harry was kept in a police cell overnight. He says here, female policers continuously and he said very rudely, refused to respond to his repeated requests to verify his gun-registration at the computerised central registry office - which they could easily have done. The confiscated firearm is meanwhile, still is lodged in a police safe in Middelburg after he was released on bail via a court appearance the next day.

Sexually harassed by black female cops:Halgryn also said that while he was in the police cell, female police officers had entered the cell and 'sexually tormented' him. He and his fiancee have been so traumatised by the events that both now are undergoing trauma-councelling. He's lodged formal charges with the police complaints directorate and said his human rights and those of his fiancee have been 'grossly violated'. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Mpumalanga/0,,3-2034_2153984,00.html

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Afrikaans protest-singer Theuns Jordaan illegaly arrested

Aug 18 2007 -- Beeld newspaper -- Afrikaans protest-singer Theuns Jordaan was falsely arrested after a musical performance in Vereeniging. He had refused to pull over for an unmarked civilian BMW car with flashing lights which had followed him and his assistant from his performance -- fearing he was being hijacked. The driver of the car tried to push him off the road and had not identified himself as an off-duty police officer. Jordaan as then arrested in a police roadblock allegedly for 'reckless driving' while he tried to evade the unmarked BMW-car, which he and his assistant said had had tried to run his car off the road. See his music on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruqvySlNwFI

The unarmed Jordaan was arrested at gun-point, and was first held in the Brackendowns-police cells for 4 hours and then taken to Alberton police-cells. Blood was drawn by the police against his permission - and these tests proved he was sober. An emergency bail application was lodged by his attorney at around 6am after his assistant had raised the alarm, fearing he'd be gang-raped in the police cells. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2166812,00.html

SA Human Rights Commission, report on Tony Ehrenreich, West Cape leader of Cosatu, alleged hate-speech: The SAHRC wrote that "Mr Ehrenreich was accused that he'd incited violence against 'boere', which is a term that, directly translated from Afrikaans into English, means 'farmers'. That the term also has a dual meaning in Afrikaans, specifically that of a DEROGATORY TERM ... commonly understood as 'referring to a White Afrikaner minority group which historically and politically has been regarded as suppressors of the non-white farm workers - should not be overlooked...' The call by Mr Ehrenreich was made specifically in response to and against those 'boere' (farmers) who abuse and mistreat there (sic) workers. .. The farmers denied the allegations of rape and assault... The fact that the farm worker later admitted that she lied and that the rape never occurred, does not minimize the harm suffered by these farmers... Mr Ehrenreich's statement used extreme language including words and expressions such as 'moer", "war", "mad dogs", "blood on the farms" "take the land" and so forth. ..(...) in light of the above, it is the SAHRC's opinion that Mr Ehrenreich's utterances LACK A CLEAR INTENTION to be hurtful, harmful, incite harm or to promote or propagate hatred...' and do not amount to hate-speech...' http://www.sahrc.org.za/sahrc_cms/downloads/AgriWes%20Cape_finding.pdf

Leaders of civil organisations have called for an urgent end to what they believe is an "orchestrated campaign" to denigrate and vilify farmers with a view to driving them off their land. Agricultural leaders, opposition politicians and the FW de Klerk Foundation have called for the demonisation of farmers to stop -- after a Rawsonville woman this week admitted she had made up claims that she had been raped and a youth beaten by four Rawsonville farmers.

The Human Rights Commission will meet farmers and workers in the Rawsonville area to try to defuse a volatile situation. The Commission is also investigating a charge of hate speech laid against Cosatu and the Women on Farms organisation over "crude and racist comments" made at a meeting held in the area last year. Women on Farms has in turn laid a complaint of "general" human rights infringements in the area. Dave Steward, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, said Davids's retraction of the charge that she was raped by four Rawsonville farmers could not be seen in isolation, nor could it be dismissed lightly. "The charges, which were vociferously supported by Women on Farms and Cosatu, have now been shown by subsequent investigation and Ms Davids's own retraction to have been perjurious and without foundation. "MEC Cobus Dowry's subsequent calls on the community to desist with such allegations have nevertheless been met with calls by activist organisations for his resignation.

"These and other developments would suggest that there is an orchestrated campaign to denigrate and vilify farmers with a view to driving them off their land. This situation has been aggravated by (Cosatu's) Tony Ehrenreich's recent call for farm invasion in Hout Bay and by radio advertisements by the minister of agriculture appealing to farmers not to evict farm workers over the festive season. AgriSA has denied that there is any such tendency. "These developments have inevitably contributed to a general climate of hostility against farmers. The recent brutal murder of a farm manager in KwaZulu-Natal tragically illustrates the importance of not contributing to this inflammatory climate." Robin Carlisle, DA spokesperson on corruption, said the manner the Rawsonville rape claims had been dealt with smacked of "moral corruption". He criticised Ehrenreich's refusal to back down in the light of Davids's retraction. "Any South African who under-estimates the serious consequences of the racist and irrational statement made by Tony Ehrenreich and others, is living in a fool's paradise. "That a tale of rape and torture is deliberately concocted and promoted by certain organisations and individuals and then supported in the face of all evidence to the contrary, is an indication of the lengths that some will go to drive up racial hatred particularly against white farmers."

Christof Cloete, chair of Agri Western Cape, said the unfounded allegations were tearing the Rawsonville community apart." "We have laid a charge of hate speech against Ehrenreich and Women on Farms after a call for all-out war to be declared against farmers during a meeting held at Rawsonville last year. Several other crude and vicious allegations were levelled at farmers. "This is a very unhappy situation. We cannot allow our members to be humiliated and denigrated. '

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Elize Havenga, 26, left. Her accused murderer Mitya Rammutla said: 'he raped and robbed her because he 'was thinking the wrong things in his head…’

March 24 2009 - Mrs Elize Havenga (26) was raped, robbed and strangled to death on her Rietfontein smallholding in February last year because her accused murderer, who was walking 300m behind her when she was walking to her homestead from the nearby highway, ‘started thinking the wrong things in his head...' testified Mitya Richard Rammutla, 30, in his trial Pretoria High Court trial. He said after he raped her, he had also choked her with a wire ‘to give him time to get away’ – but denied that he intended to kill her. A police forensic expert testified however that the man had not only raped her, but had also sodomosed her, and that the wire he’d admitted tying around the young Afrikaans mom’s neck ‘had cut deep into the skin’...

Rammutla admitted guilt in the Pretoria High Court on March 23 2009 on charges of rape and robbery with ‘extenuating circumstances’, – but denied the murder charge. He admits ‘being responsible for her death, but that he didn’t intend to kill her’.

Mrs Havenga was murdered in February 2008 on her smallholding in Rietfontein, Pretoria, when her baby girl Arista. left with dad, Afrikaner artist Jan Adriaan Havenga, was just nine months old. Mrs Havenga had been dropped off at their smallholding by her brother-in-law Daniel Vrey after she’d had a row with her husband and was walking to her homestead on the smallholding’s dirt road, when she was raped and murdered. Rammutla testified that he saw her being dropped off and was walking about 300m behind her “when I started thinkng the wrong things in my head,’ he testified. He grabbed her, dragged her into the bushes, and he raped her. He said she was threatening to ‘have him arrested for what he’d done. So he tied a wire around her neck and strangled her. “I didn’t think she’d die,’ he claimed. “I just wanted the chance to get away.’

Police forensic expert Dr. Paul Lombard testified that the wire was twirled so tightly around her neck that it had cut into her neck. Besides being raped, she was also sodomised and there were scratch-marks on her body. The man took her cellphone and camera, which he sold for $700 he said. He burnt her handbag. Police captain Steven Hermitage, head of detectives at the Welbekend police station, testified that one of his detectives was buying feed for her horse when she recognised one of the workers at the feed-store at Rammutla. Judge Lettie Molopa is on the bench. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2490417,00.html

20090321 Johan Dreyer, 48, murdered,Pretoria AH, wife Sandra assaulted, dog poisoned Just 2 months before Pretoria businessman Johan Dreyer, 48, was going to be a granddad for the first time, he was shot seven times in his home and killed in front of his wife.

Mar 23 2009 Beeld journalist Daniel Maluleke reports that Johan Dreyer, 48, was shot seven times and killed this weekend in front of his wife Sandra (44) at their Pretoria West business, West Trailer II. Their dog was poisoned.

She fought like a lioness, throwing glasses and CDs at the five armed attackers – who pistol-whipped her mercilessly in the face after killing her husband.

He owned the West Trailer II business in Chrome Street, Proclamation Hill in Pretoria West and their home is on the same erf, which according to the municipal land registration records, is sto;; listed as a smallholding. Earlier that night the couple had a braai with son Shaun, 24, his pregnant wife Lucia, 24, his sister Carla-Marie, 23, and the latter’s boyfriend Ronnie Scheltema, 23. The son said that only two hours later, they received the call that his father was murdered and his murder assaulted and inthe Eguene Marais Hospital. Their loot was a mere $20, two cellphones.The dog is in an animal clinic: they had poisoned him but he survived. Police captain Bonginkosi Msimango said no-one was arrested for Dreyer’s murder.http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2490406,00.html

20090222 Strijdom couple attacked on AH in Thabazimbi, two days after midnight arrest by six local cops…

Only two days after six policemen had arrived at their smallholding in the middle of the night on a false-arrest charge of Joos Strydom, 70, he and his wife Hannetjie, 71, were attacked and robbed. And the four armed men knew exactly where the safe was…

March 22 2009 Beeld journalist Marietie Louw-Carstens reports that four armed men attacked Joos and Hannetjie Strijdom at 11am, shortly before their daughter Trudie van Rhyn and husband Dewald showed up for a visit. The attackers were scared away upon their arrival – so things could have ended up a lot worse. Mr Strijdom was choked with a wire and tied by his hands and feet with wire coathangers. The old lady was bashed in the face, and also was shoved between a mattress and the box-springs while the the men sat on top of her, demanding to know ‘where the money was’. “They knew exactly where the safe was located, isn’t that a coincidence, just a few days after the police raided the homestead…’ said the daughter. When the Van Rhyn couple arrived, they knew something was wrong because the garage door was open. The men then fled, with Mr van Rhyn chasing them. He was unable to find them however. About R10,000 in cash, cellphones watches and jewellery were robbed from the safe.

Two days earlier, the couple had been awaked at around 23:00 by six armed policemen inside their bedroom after a tenant on their smallholding had lodged a false claim that Mr Strijdom had ‘pointed a gun at her’.

The old man spent the night in the police cells and appeared in Thabazimbi magistrate’s court the next day on a charge of ‘pointing a firearm’, which he denied. He was then merely released with ‘a warning’. Anyone with any information may contact the Thabazimbi police at 014 777 3512 http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2490410,00.html

March 23 2009 Carla van Niekerk of Beeld newspaper reports that five suspects of a farm attack in Wolmaransstad in NW province on 27 November 2006 were arrested. Farmer Chris Nel, 47 and his dog were shot in the head, but survived. Nel said five men had ambushed him at his homestead, with his own gun which they had robbed just minutes before while he was visiting with friends. “I was unlocking the kitchen door when they shot me.’ The bullet entered just above his left eye and exited from his skull.”I was knocked out for about two hours. When I woke up I realised they had also beaten me while I was unconscious. Us farmers are being murdered at a fast rate now,’ he told the newspaper. . He spent months recovering at Unitas hospital in centurion, and ‘they put plates in my head,’ he said. Nel was intussen lank in die Unitas-hospitaal in Centurion. A family member had hired private detectives Wayne and Christian Botha of EWB investigations -- after a local man had tried to exchange one of Nel’s stolen cheques at his bank.“

‘Shot dead a white pig…’

They changed the amount on the cheque from 150 to 6,900 and the bank contacted me,’said the farmer. This man was arrested and told police that ‘the man who had given him the cheque, said they had shot dead a white pig and stolen his guns’. This stolen cheque led the detectives to the alleged farm-attacks, and superintendent Lesego Metsi said they are expected to ‘appear in the Leeudoringstad court soon’. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2490420,00.html.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

October 20 2017

Please note that my site with the PAST SEVEN YEARS' information on atrocities against white South Africas, was hacked away. It used to be on https://www.censorbugbear.org. I apologize that this information is no longer available online. Anyone needing information about specific cases please email me at a.j.stuijt@knid.nl

For a name-list of murdered white farmers, - smallholders and their family and workers in South Africa, up to April 2011, view:

and for reports of human-rights violations against South African minorities, including whites, after 2011 see: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '